Tag: Day Offline

At first I wondered how I had to organize my day. Even though I don’t organize my days a lot. I wanted to try being without a phone for a while, but every time ‘something’ stopped me from doing it. How would I communicate? What if plans would change? How will I be informed? Can we even do this without our phone? Despite all these questions I still wanted to put it to the test.

I must admit I made one phone call on my phone-less Sunday. I went to the dog park around 8:15 am and informed my mom about my plan. Just so she wouldn’t panic if she tried to reach me. So I figured that this was a valid enough reason for the call to not really count on my day offline.

A happy coincidence is that something on my phone had to be fixed. I turned it off and gave it to my boyfriend, so he could bring it to his work to fix it. This way I couldn’t even be tempted to turn it back one. I was literally offline and if someone needed me they had to find another way to reach me.

The immediate benefit that I encountered was that I had so much time. Normally you check your phone every now and then. While you do this you just ‘quickly’ go through Facebook, Instagram and watch of course just one video on YouTube. Suddenly half and hour or longer has past and you’re still cyberstalking some celebrity. Since I didn’t do any of that I had all my chores done before noon! My meal prepping was done, laundry was done, dishes were done and the bed was made. It was wonderful!

The chores part obviously wasn’t that wonderful, but the feeling of having a ‘free’ day the rest of my day was great. I drove with the doggies to my grandmother and after that to my moms house. Once in a while I noticed I wanted to grab my purse to get my phone. However seconds after I realized that I couldn’t do that, since I didn’t bring it. And why did I need it? Once I wanted to check the weather forecast, once to look at a picture and once to see if I had messages. None of these times I really needed my phone.

When I left my moms I got into the car and for a moment it seemed it wouldn’t start. That was the only time that I thought that I should’ve brought my phone. Maybe in future cases I can bring it turned completely off, just in case there is a real emergency. Other than that I really didn’t need my phone. Honestly it felt really good to not check social media all day long or check any messages. In some way it felt freeing to be offline.

So would I do it again? Definitely yes! I just have to decide how I will do it. At this moment I think it might be good to have my phone in my purse but turned off. Or perhaps I can switch it to flight mode or maybe even better just turn off internet. If you have any tips feel free to share! And my tip? If you haven’t tried it already you really should. You literally have more time on your hands, since you’re not using them to hold your phone.